New Product for a Crowded Market Today Sony outed their attractive new line of palm-sized, waterproof, high-output portable wireless speakers. As with most Sony products, the speakers are simply named: SRS-X1.

M6.2 Off the Izu Coast At 5:18 this morning, we were woken up by a fairly sizeable shake. With a magnitude of 6.2 at the epicentre and clocking in at around Shindo 4 in my area, it's the biggest one I've felt since the aftershocks of 3/11. It was a fairly long one, and until it peaked and flattened out, it felt like it might have grown into the next big one. It didn't, thankfully.

It’s Just Different Over HereAs with almost every spot of Western culture that Japan Hoovers up, in accordance with the nuance of local tastes, i.e., straight-up Borg-like assimilative capabilities, the institution of Star Wars has been exhaustively Japanified. The same popular characters are popular, but often they’re just doing other stuff...

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